Young Aussie speed skater Deanna Lockett uses Steven Bradbury tactic to progress at Sochi

DEANNA Lockett has scraped into the 1000m short track speed skating quarter-finals, using Steven Bradbury tactics.

AUSTRALIAN teenage speed skater Deanna Lockett has scraped into the 1000-metre short track quarter-finals, using Steven Bradbury’s tactic of lurking at the back of the pack.

The 18-year-old’s luck was in when Canadian Marianne St-Gelais clipped the skate of the Netherlands’ Jorien ter Mors, sending both of them to the floor.

Lockett then sailed past Austria’s Veronika Windisch to win the race and score a place in the quarter finals.

Deanna Lockett waits for her moment.

Lockett did not perform to expectations in the 1500 metres where she did not make the final rounds.

“I think in the 1500 metres I was pretty unlucky and my race was not very good but God was fair and he gave me a better opportunity in the 1000,” she said.

“I was conserving energy for the last two laps when I was planning to do a pass but I didn’t have to. I just had to make sure I stayed on my feet and didn’t fall over as well.”